Cable-holding device



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CABLE HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 21. 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patntgfl Ugh 1L 1921 Application filed November 2'7, 1920. Serial No. 426,800.

ToaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. ROSEMEY'ER, a citizen of the'United States. of America,

' residing at Elmira, in the county of Bonner and State of lldaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable- Holding Devices, of which the following is a I specification.

y present invention relates generally to cable holding devices by means of which a.

cable grip may be completed without knotting and by which the cable may be readlly and quickly connected and disconnected, and

more particularly to what is known as a cable take-up, my object belng the provision of a simple inexpensive device which will inefliciency due to rust or other action of the elements.

With these and certainother objects to be hereinafter made plain, my invention resides in the construction shown in the ac companying drawing, whichforrns a part of this specification, and wherein,

- Figure 1 is a top plan view lllustratlng the practical application of my invention,

- Fig. 2 is a side view,

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and, Fig. 4 is a transverse section. Referring now to these figures, my invention proposes a take-up including a ring 1 shapedbody 10 having a peripheral groove 11 adapted to receive the loop 12 of a cable 13, the body being open for the convenient reception of a hook 14: and the like of a pull line 15, as shown inFig. 1.

. The body 10 is preferably of. oval form and provided with an external substantlally flatextension 16 at, and projecting beyond, one end, which extension is of materially less width than the width of the body 10 and has its inner or upper surface substantially in the plane of the groove 11 so as to receive the cable 13 adjacent to the loop 12 in crossing relation above the free end 17 of thecable.

At the outer end of the extension 16 is a cable guide 18 disposed transversely thereof and preferably integral therewith, the oppo-' surface of extension 16 to tightly end and also having side edge of the groove,

"the sides surfaces in the plane of the other side edge sion '16 so that it is obvious that the pull on cable 13 in use will cause that portion of the cable which crosses the upper or inner H engage and grlp'the freeend 17 of the loop.

'It-is thus obvious thatthe device is of. strong integral construction, not only capable of effective eflicient operation, but free from danger of failure of working parts through the result of rust or the result of rough handling in the use to which devices of this nature are invariably put. 7 I claim: 1. A cable take up consisting of a ringshaped body of oval form having a reduced substantially flat extension projecting in the present an integral structure and will prod 'mote efiective" and efficient operation at all times without danger of excessive wear or irection of its longitudinal axis beyond one a surrounding cable receiving. groove, and a cable-guiding anchor at the end of said extension which is spaced from the grooved portion of the body and provided with ends projecting laterally beyond opposite sides of the body extension, the lower surfaces of said ends beingapproximately in the plane of the upper edge of the groove'of the body, as described.

2. A cable take up consisting of a ringshaped body having a peripheral cable recelvlng groove and an endwise projecting external body extension presenting an upper cable receiving surface in the plane of one and an integral cable'guide-disposed transversely of said extension at the outer end of the latter, having oppositely extending ends projecting beyond of the extension with their lower of the body groove, as and for the purpose described.

3.-A cable'take up having a ring-shaped body provided with an integral outwardly projecting extension presenting a substantially flat surface for the crossed extensions of a cable'loop, said body having a peripheral groove for the reception of a cableloop at one slde of the saidcrossed extensions,

and 'a transverse guide at the outer end of said extension having its ends projecting be- ,yond opposite sides of the extension to receivetherebeneath the extensions of the ca ble loop at the opposite side of said crossed extensions thereof.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature. l

JOHN HENRY ROSEMEYER. 

